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VITAL STATISTICS
POPULATION
The Registrar-General's estimate for the mid-year 1965 is 339,560. This is
116,620 more than that for the mid-year estimate of the year 1964 in respect of
the old Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth.
BIRTHS
The corrected birth rate for the London Borough of Lambeth is 19.5 per 1,000
home population compared with 22.10 for the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth for
the year 1964. Of the 7,439 births, 1,222 were illegitimate, a percentage of 16.4.
STILL BIRTHS
The still birth rate of 15.61 per 1,000 total births compares favourably with
that for England and Wales which is 15.8 per 1,000 total births.
DEATHS
The total number of deaths was 3,709, 1,901 males and 1,808 females.
Heart and associated diseases accounted for the largest number of deaths,
1,282 people dying from these causes. Malignant neoplasms of all forms ranked
second in the causes of death, 809 deaths occurring.
Fifty people, 27 men and 23 women took their own lives during the year.
Motor vehicle accidents accounted for 46 lives and 50 people died from
other accidents.
INFANTILE MORTALITY
The number of infants who died in the first year of life was 175 giving an
infantile mortality rate of 23.52 per 1,000 live births.
One hundred and fifteen of the deaths occurred in children under the age of
4 weeks giving a neo-natal mortality rate of 15.4.